Lars von Trier (b. 1956) is a Danish world known Screenwriter and film director. Trier is educated from the Danish Film School and his films have always been marked by experiments and a hypnotizing esthetics. Moreover his films are often placed under a set of rules, which means that the conventional ethics are crossed and new ways are extracted.
Through his carrier Trier has changed his narrative focus from the predominant esthetical to the more depth psychological, even though many of his productions connect both.
In 1995 Trier and his film colleagues, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, developed a manifesto for a new cinematic movement which they called Dogme 95.
The purpose of the Dogme 95 was to point out the acting and the narrative instead of the media by means of a number of ‘chastity vows’.
In 2000 Trier won the Golden Palm with Dancer in the Dark and in 2009 he received the Nordic Council’s Film Prize for his controversial film Antichrist.
Lars Von Trier © Casper Sejersen
